TOWNSHIP DESCRIPTIONS. 63 



Woodlands. — ^The woodlands are limited to the northern portion and comprise 

 1,500 acres. The stands are thin and scattering, mostly mere lines, small groups, 

 or isolated trees, and consist of limber pine, red fir, and a few j^ellow pines. 



Gutting. — More than 1,500 acres have been cut and culled, mostly in the 

 southwest quarter, where a sawmill has been in operation for a number of years. 

 The cut amounts to 50 per cent of the original stand. 



Burns. — Extensive and mostly clean -burning fires have destroyed the forest 

 on 8,000 acres. The fires date back seven or eight years. 



Beproduction. — Restocking of the burned-over areais has, in most localities, not 

 yet fairly begun. The coming growth will be lodgepole pine. In the unburned 

 timber reproduction is sufficient to maintain the present stands. In the woodlands 

 j^oung growth is gradually extending into the grassy areas and will, in course of 

 time, cover them with stands of forest. 



Undergrowth. — Scanty throughout; none in the woodlands. 



Litter^ — In some of the burns the fire-killed timber is now beginning to fall 

 and the litter is rapidly increasing. In the green timber there is only a moderate 

 quantity. 



Swrnus. — None. 



Clasaificalion of lands in T. 5 S. , R. 15 E. 



Acres. 



Forested 5,500 



Wooded , 1,500 



Nontimbered 16, 040 



Badly burned 8,000 



Logged and culled 1, 500 



Agricultural - - 2,000 



Grazing 5, 200 



Bare rocks 840 



Total stand of timber in T. 5 S., Jl. 15 E. 



Species. 



Mill timber. 



Pole and fuel 

 timber. 



Total volume of 

 all timber. 



Limber pine 



Lodgepole pine 



White-bark pine . . . 



Bed fir 



Subalpine fir 



Engelmann spruce . 



Total 



Feel B. M. 



3, 500, 000 



301), 000 



550, 000 



4, 350, 000 



Cubicfeet. 

 250, 000 



5, 500, 000 

 300, 000 

 200, 000 

 450, 000 



2, 000, 000 



8, 700, 000 



Cubic /eel. 

 250, 000 



6, 130, 000 

 300, 000 

 254, 000 

 450, 000 



2, 099, 000 



9, 483, 000 



